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Students enter the Kirkkojärvi School in Espoo, Finland. The school is among those featured in an exhibit that highlights the country's move away from factory-style schools to contemporary campuses built to meet the pedagogical and social needs of their students and teachers.
—Stuart W. Conway

Finland Rethinks Factory-Style School Buildings

A new exhibit highlights efforts in Finland to design schools tailored to the learning needs of students and teachers. (July 6, 2012)

Top Performers Blog

08/01 09:51 am | Dialogue With Dylan Wiliam on Teacher Quality: Part II | A guest post from Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the University of London's Institute of Education, on how teacher expertise is developed.

Global Learning Blog

07/25 09:18 am | The Global-Learning Twitterati | Literati, derived from Latin, means "acquainted with letters." In historical times, it referred a well-educated class who held an elite status in society. Twitterati are well ...

Democracy and Education Blog

07/11 03:25 pm | The State of Public Education; The State of Movements for Human Rights | As I announced yesterday, we are moving this blog to a new livelier format at Participatory Democracy and Public Education.  I want to take the opportunity of this last blog ...

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E-Learning Goes Global
This webinar examined the state of online learning internationally and highlight various countries moving ahead in this arena.

Chat Transcripts

What U.S. Schools Can Learn From High-Performing Countries
This chat examined the United States’ mediocre showing on recent international tests, and what those results mean.

E-Learning Creates Foreign Connections
Our guests in this chat shared their experiences establishing meaningful connections between their schools in the United States and schools in other countries.

Special Collection

Quality Counts 2012
The 16th edition of Education Week's annual report looks at America's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high-performing countries.

Multimedia

Quality Counts 2012: A Multimedia Presentation

Why is it important to study schools from other countries? Watch videos on the subject and listen to Education Week's reporters who studied the issue at large for Quality Counts 2012.

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High youth-unemployment rates in Finland show that even a strong education system can't solve all societal ills by itself, Nancy Hoffman writes. July 31, 2013 – Education Week
As events continue to unfold in Egypt, teacher Adam Herzig recalls the scene inside his Cairo classroom in 2011 when the revolution began. July 12, 2013 – Education Week
Education leaders in Singapore continue to push ahead with respect to educating their students; the same cannot be said in the United States, writes Deanna Kuhn. July 2, 2013 – Education Week
Upon transferring to a school in Mexico that has insufficient records of students’ literacy levels, a teacher comes to see the value in assessments. June 18, 2013 – Teacher
System allows secondary students to shift from vocational training to a degree roughly equivalent to the high school diploma. April 23, 2013 – Education Week
Massively open online courses are growing more popular in colleges and universities, but there are questions about the quality of the courses and the retention of students. February 5, 2013 – Education Week
International-student programs work well in Australia, thought Superintendent Clark Hults, so why not in the Adirondacks? February 4, 2013 – Education Week
After digging into international test data, Martin Carnoy and Richard Rothstein argue that the scores mask an important reality. January 18, 2013 – Education Week
While the two nations ran even in math, Finland maintained the lead in science and reading even though some U.S. states finished ahead. January 8, 2013 – Education Week
Foreign-language education needs to change dramatically to become more useful for students in the global economy, David Young and J.B. Buxton write. January 8, 2013 – Education Week

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